Well done. When you look at the timeline from the explosion point onward - the death and capture did not take as long as I thought it would. Good detective work, and marvelous help from the public. The legal process from here on in will likely be lengthy.

And the press conference is....
"We fucked up. We have no clue where the terrorist is, or how the fuck we missed hitting him last night. Our bad, go about your way." - Mass State Police

That makes me feel safe.

Would you care to amend said statement? I admit when I heard the curfew was being lifted, with no solid reports of a capture at the time, that didn't sit well at the time. Could it have been a tactic of some kind?

Now this is funny. It looks like an FBI agent had climbed halfway over a tall wrought iron gate with a spiky top when it just swung open, so the other agent just walked on past. It might be an animated GIF in your future.

Was this a "kaleidoscopic situation"? The police had control of the area, unlike a grocery store or a public space. I'm not so sure his lawyers will not argue this because it will likely be a death penalty case -

That sounds like a horrible case for carving such an exception. The suspect dumped his gun in a grocery aisle and that created an immediate threat to public safety? It's not like a pistol in a pile of broccoli is going to get up and start shooting people, unlike a bomb with a timer.

Was the gun a clear threat to public safety, or were the police just feeling too lazy to go search for all the evidence, reaching behind all the cereal boxes and canned goods and creating a terrible mess to cleanup on aisle 3? If a gun in a store is such a dire and immediate threat to public safety, then why are gun stores with whole shelves of them such a safe place for police and the public to hang out?

The current incident would be a much, much better case for establishing such an exception.